Summify – Most powerful women in Chicago journalism? Here’s one man’s list | Robert Feder Dangerously close to patronizing in the quote above, but I like Feder’s lists: The Ten Most Powerful Women in Chicago Journalism: Emily Barr, president and general manager, ABC 7 Carol Marin, columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, political editor, NBC 5, correspondent, WTTW Jane Hirt, managing editor, Chicago Tribune Lynn Sweet, Washington bureau chief and blogger, Chicago Sun-Times Mary Schmich, columnist, Chicago Tribune Mary Field, executive producer, WTTW Sally Eisele, managing editor of public affairs, WBEZ Linda Johnson Rice, chairman, Johnson Publishing Co. Madeleine Doubek, assistant vice president and executive editor, Daily Herald Mara Shalhoup, editor, Chicago Reader The Next Ten: Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director, ABC 7 Fran Spielman, City Hall reporter, Chicago Sun-Times Shia Kapos, columnist and blogger, Crain’s Chicago Business Mary Mitchell, columnist and editorial board member, Chicago Sun-Times Melody Spann Cooper, president and general manager, WVON Amy Carr, executive editor, Time Out Chicago Michael Sneed, columnist, Chicago Sun-Times Elizabeth Brackett, correspondent, WTTW Sherren Leigh, president and editor-in-chief, Today’s Chicago Woman Pam Zekman, investigative reporter, CBS 2

Another prominent writer, who asked not be identified, observed: “Power isn’t just politics. It isn’t just public. There are journalists — more often women than men, I think — whose work makes people think private thoughts, whose words are hung on refrigerators and spoken at weddings and funerals and birthday parties and Sunday sermons. I think that’s often overlooked or viewed as something lesser when, in truth, it’s just influence of a different shade and tone.